James Strachan's Webloghttp://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/
Ramblings on Open Source, Java, Groovy, XML and other geeky malarkeyen-gbCopyright 2007 James StrachanMon, 16 Apr 2007 14:02:26 GMThttp://backend.userland.com/rssRadio UserLand v8.2.1jstrachan@apache.orgjstrachan@apache.orgrssUpdates1203214222360My blog is moving...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/2007/04/16.html#a572
My blog is now moving <a href="http://macstrac.blogspot.com/">here</a> to <a href="http://macstrac.blogspot.com/">macstrac.blogspot.com</a> or you can subscribe to the <a href="http://macstrac.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default">Atom feed</a>.<br><br>I've not blogged in the longest time, its quite embarrasing. Not being able to easily blog while on the road doesn't help; so I'm switching to a new hosted blog which will hopefully help me to blog more often. Fingers crossed!<br>http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/2007/04/16.html#a572Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:02:25 GMThttp://radiocomments2.userland.com/comments?u=112098&amp;p=572&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fradio.weblogs.com%2F0112098%2F2007%2F04%2F16.html%23a572Am liking the spell checking in Firefox 2.0!http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/2006/10/27.html#a571
Crikey long time no blog! Am still alive, just crazy busy but I really will try and blog a bit more often. (I've a stack of posts I should write if I get time).<br><br>I just wanted to say I totally love the new spell checking in <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/">Firefox 2.0</a>. This along with the excellent <a href="http://del.icio.us/help/firefox/extension">delicious plugin</a> make it the best browser around. Am liking the cute safari-ness of Firefox 2.0 :)<br>http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/2006/10/27.html#a571Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:51:55 GMThttp://radiocomments2.userland.com/comments?u=112098&amp;p=571&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fradio.weblogs.com%2F0112098%2F2006%2F10%2F27.html%23a571London Java Meetup on Wed 5th @ 5pmhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/2006/07/04.html#a570
Thanks to <a href="http://www.javanicus.com/blog2/">Jez</a> for arranging this we now have a place and location for Wednesday's geeky curry and beer night...<br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">Jason van Zyl, lead developer for Maven, Plexus, Continuum and Modello and also founder of Velocity is in town this week.<br><br>This wednesday, after his free lunchtime seminar with JSIG at the Sun offices, why not join Jason van Zyl, James Strachan, and myself for a few beers and a great meal out...<br><br>We will be in the pub from about 5pm onwards, and when we get hungry we'll move towards food, so if we are not in the pub, try the restauraunt, if you still can't find us email my blackberry on jeremy.rayner at interactivedata<wbr>.com and I'll direct you.<br><br>Sounds like a fantastic evening, I'll see you there,<br><br>Background<br> &nbsp;'Jason van Zyl' -&gt; <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://tinyurl.com/kh97k" target="_blank"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/kh97k">http://tinyurl.com/kh97k</a></a><br> &nbsp;'JSIG seminar' -&gt; <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://tinyurl.com/ehdn6" target="_blank"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/ehdn6">http://tinyurl.com/ehdn6</a></a><br><br>Evening<br> &nbsp;'Pub: The Puzzle' -&gt; <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://tinyurl.com/gcgo5" target="_blank"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/gcgo5">http://tinyurl.com/gcgo5</a></a><br> &nbsp;'Food: The Gulshan' -&gt; <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://tinyurl.com/fjw7x" target="_blank"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/fjw7x">http://tinyurl.com/fjw7x</a></a><br></div><br>See you all there! :)<br>http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/2006/07/04.html#a570Tue, 04 Jul 2006 06:49:50 GMThttp://radiocomments2.userland.com/comments?u=112098&amp;p=570&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fradio.weblogs.com%2F0112098%2F2006%2F07%2F04.html%23a570London Java Meetup 6 days early on Wed 5th? http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/2006/07/03.html#a569
Jason van Zyl (Mr <a href="http://maven.apache.org/">Maven</a>) is over in blighty for almost 2 whole days so figured it'd only be fair to drink beer and go for a curry. I wondered if folks fancied a rapidly arranged early session of the <a href="http://www.javanicus.com/londonjava/">London Java Meetup</a> - or having an <a href="http://www.xpdeveloper.com/xpdwiki/Wiki.jsp?page=XtC">Xtc</a> a day late :). Both Jason and I are up for beer, geeking out and eating curry in any order....http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/2006/07/03.html#a569Mon, 03 Jul 2006 18:10:24 GMThttp://radiocomments2.userland.com/comments?u=112098&amp;p=569&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fradio.weblogs.com%2F0112098%2F2006%2F07%2F03.html%23a569Ruby and Rails messaging with ActiveMessaginghttp://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/2006/06/29.html#a568
I love <a href="http://dev.tirsen.com/trac/activemessaging">ActiveMessaging</a>. It brings the power and elegance of messaging to the world of Ruby and Rails..<br><div style="margin-left: 40px;" class="code"><pre><span class="p_word">class</span> <span class="p_classname">HelloWorldProcessor</span> <span class="p_operator">&lt;</span> <span class="p_identifier">ActiveMessaging</span><span class="p_operator">::</span><span class="p_identifier">Processor</span><br> <br> <span class="p_identifier">subscribes_to</span> <span class="p_operator">:</span><span class="p_identifier">hello_world</span><br> <br> <span class="p_word">def</span> <span class="p_defname">on_message</span><span class="p_operator">(</span><span class="p_identifier">message</span><span class="p_operator">)</span><br> <span class="p_identifier">puts</span> <span class="p_string">"received: "</span> <span class="p_operator">+</span> <span class="p_identifier">message</span><br> <span class="p_word">end</span><br> <br><span class="p_word">end</span>
</pre></div>It supports transactions, queues &amp; publish subscribe, load balancing, failover, clustering, optional persistence, browsing of queues and a full management front end. Its based on the <a href="http://stomp.codehaus.org/Ruby+Client">Ruby Stomp client</a> which works great with <a href="http://incubator.apache.org/activemq/">Apache ActiveMQ</a> and its <a href="http://incubator.apache.org/activemq/stomp.html">Stomp support</a>. Great work guys!<br>http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/2006/06/29.html#a568Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:31:14 GMThttp://radiocomments2.userland.com/comments?u=112098&amp;p=568&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fradio.weblogs.com%2F0112098%2F2006%2F06%2F29.html%23a568Glad to see AMQP released!http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/2006/06/21.html#a567
I wasn't totally sure if this would ever happen but I'm glad to see that <a href="http://www.infoq.com/news/amq">AMQP has been released</a> with some interesting chat over on InfoQ and brian's <a href="http://kasparov.skife.org/blog/src/amqp-0_8.html">blog</a>.
Am also looking forward to TSSJS Barcelona; time to get on that plane...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/2006/06/21.html#a567Wed, 21 Jun 2006 07:34:50 GMThttp://radiocomments2.userland.com/comments?u=112098&amp;p=567&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fradio.weblogs.com%2F0112098%2F2006%2F06%2F21.html%23a567Apache ActiveMQ Performance Tuning Guide availablehttp://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/2006/06/15.html#a566
A common question I hear from customers and users is how fast can <a href="http://incubator.apache.org/activemq/">Apache ActiveMQ</a> go and how to get the most out of it. It generally <a href="http://incubator.apache.org/activemq/performance.html">depends on a lot of factors</a> but to help folks get the most out of it we've compiled an <a href="http://devzone.logicblaze.com/site/apache-activemq-performance-tuning-guide.html">Apache ActiveMQ Performance Tuning Guide</a>http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/2006/06/15.html#a566Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:26:27 GMThttp://radiocomments2.userland.com/comments?u=112098&amp;p=566&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fradio.weblogs.com%2F0112098%2F2006%2F06%2F15.html%23a566